With IBM® Informix® version 12.10.xC5, the powerful and flexible basic text searching feature is now available for Linux on IBM Power Series and IBM zSeries machines: IBM Power Series 64-bit with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES releases 5.3, 6, and 7, and...

As many users are aware, BTS is based on the CLucene Search Engine and
documents are returned from the index in order from the highest to lowest
score. This score value is the relevance of the document as compared to the
documents indexed, the documents...

BTS support Fuzzy Term search, but how does it work?
BTS is based on CLucene, a derived from Lucene and you can search the web for
some of the details of the fuzzy term search used by Lucene, or you can read
on :-)
A fuzzy term search is specified...

Its been a great year and a very busy December for me. I have been getting many
questions on BTS in the past week and it good it being used so much.
As this will be the last blog entry of 2010, I
will discuss a question I was asked on an error that BTS...

I have received several questions about how BTS analysis the characters in a document to form tokens. I use token instead of words here because, as we will see, tokens do not necessarily map to what is considered a single word. Currently BTS uses the...

When the Basic Text Search DataBlade (BTS) was introduced in Informix Version 11.10, it only provided support extspaces, ie storing the index files outside the database.
With Informix Version 11.50, BTS introduced support for storing the index in a sbspace...

In Informix 11.70, we introduced a new feature in BTS to support creating a composite index. This is an index across several columns in a table. Given the table: create table address( fname char(32), lname char(32), ...

BTSPart 2 BTSPart 1 So now that we have set up the BasicText Search Blade, or BTS forshort, the next question is what performance tuning tools areavailable, andhow do we primarily troubleshoot problems? BTS comes with 4 functions in addition to the...

So you want to get the BTS datablade running on a database? Well hereis a step by step Quick Reference to get your database ready to use theBTS Datablade. First you need to register the BTS blade in your database,this is done with the following method: Next...

One of the new features for Cheetah is the inclusion of severaladditional datablades. One of the more exciting of these blades is theBasic Text Search blade, BTS for short. This datablade allowsyou to do a lot of searches on text data found in...